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My boss went to Japan and all he took back was a broken 8800; he says he switched it on and it failed to boot; now it sits on my desk with an icon showing a battery with a line through it despite being plugged in to a charger. Is it dead or can anything be done to revive it?

If your battery runs extremely low it will give that exact same symbol. I would let it charge and see if it will eventually boot back up. If the phone continues to keep the battery symbol and not boot up at all I would attempt to do a software upload and see if that will revive the device.